The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-16

or did stand, a statue of the good, but
broken-heaTted Josephine. / never
imagined that marble could be
smitten into such tenderness. 1t
Josephine be disenta bernacled, the soul of
the Empress has taken possession of this
figure. / am not yet satisfied that il is
stone. The puff of the dress on the arm
seems to need but the pressure of the
finger to indent it. The figure at the bot
tom of the robe, the ruff1e at the neck, the
fur lining the dress, the embroidery of
the satin, the cluster of lily and leaf and
rose in her hand, the pose Of her body as
she seems to come sailing out of the sky,
her face calm, humble, beautiful, but yet
sad, attest the genius of the sculptor and
the beauty Of the heroine he celebrates.
Looking up through the riffs of the
coronet that encircles her brow, 1 could
see the sky beyond, the great heavens
where all woman's wrongs shall be right
ed, and the story of endurance and
resignation shall be told to all the ages.
The rose and the lily in the hand Of
Josephine viii never drop their
petals. The children of God, whether
they suffer earth, in palaces
or in novels, shall come to that glorious
rest, oh Heaven, sweet Heavenl at thy
gate we set down all our burdens and
griefs. The place viii be full Here there
the table, but there are no vacant chairs
in Heaven. The crowns all worn; the
thrones all mounted.
Some talk of Heaven as though it were
very handsome church, where a few
favored spirits would come in aud sit
down on finely-cushioned seats all by
themselves, and sing psalms to all eter-
nifty. No, no.
saw a great multitude that no man could
10 a
talked with me had golden reed to measure
the city and it was 1900 furlongs.
That is, onethousan -fivehundred miles
in circumference. All Heaven is not
a little colony at one corner Of
Gods dominion, where a mans en-
trance depends upon what kind of
| clothes he has on his back and how much
money he has in his purse, but vast
empire. God grant that the light of that
blessed world may shine upon our last
moment.
The roughest time we had in crossing
the ocean was at the mouth of Liverpool
| harbor. We arrived at nightfall and
/ were obliged to lie there till the morning.
| waiting for the rising of the tide, before
we could go up to the city How the yes
sci pitched and writhed in the water So
sometimes the last illness of the Christian
| is a struggle. He is almost through the
! voyage. The waves Of temptation toss his
| soul, but he waits for the morning. AT
/ last the light dawns, and the tides of oy
rise in his soul, and he sails up and casts
anchor within the vail.
Is thy heart right?
! What question can compare with this in
| Importance?
It is a business question. Do you not
| realize that you will soon have to go out of
| that store; that you will have to resign
| that partnership; that soon among all
! the millions Of dollars worth
of goods that are sold in New
| York you will not have the handling of a
yard Of cloth, or a pound Of sugar, or a
| penny worth of any thing; that soon if a
| confagration should start at Central
Park and sweep every thing to the Bat
terry, it would not disturb you; that soon
1 if every cashier should abscond, and
every insurance company should fail, it
would not affect you? What are the
1 questions that stop this side the grave
| compared with the questions that reach
| beyond it2 Are you making losses tn at
| are to be everlasting? Are Won making
| purchases for eternity? Are you jobbing
| for time when on might be wholesaliug
/ for eternity? What question of the store
is so broad at the base, and so altitudn-
ous and so overwhelming as the question: !:
Is thy heart right?
| Or is it a domestic quest tion? Is it
1
! companion, or son, or daughter, that You
think is comparable with this question in
| importance? Do you not realize that by
universal and inexorable law, all these re-
| lations viii be broken up? Your father
| win be gone, your mother viii be gone.
| your companion will be gone, your child
| will be gone, you will be gone, and then
| this superna1 question will begin to har-
| vest its chief gains, or deplore its worst
| inf frrhE - NJ
| tude, or sweep its vast circles. What
difference now does it make to
! Napoleon III. whether he triumphed
| or surrendered at Sedan? whether
he lived at the Tuilieries or at
| Chiselhurst? whether he was emperor or
| exile? They laid him out in his coffin in
the dress of feld-marshaL Did that
give him any better chance for the next
| world than if he had been laid out in a
plain shroud? And soon to Us what will
| be the difference whether in this worId &
| we rode or walked, were bowed to or mall
| treated, were applauded or hissed at,
were welcomed in or kicked ont, while
| laying hold of every moment of the great
| future, and burning in all the splendo or
grief, and overarching and undergoing all
time and all eternity, is hs plain simple,
practical, thrilling, agonizing, over
| whelming question,
| Is thy heart right?
Have you within you a repenting
| heart, an expectant heart? If not I must
| write upon your soul what George White.
field wrote upon ths window pane with
| his diamond ring. He tarried in an
| elegant house over night. but found that
| there was no God recognized in that
house. Before he left his room in the
| morning with his ring he wrote upon
the widow pane, zone thing thou lack
est" After the guest was gone the
housewife came up and looked at the
window and saw the inscription and
called her husband and Der children, and
| God, through t3ab ministry of the
window glass, brought them all to Jesus.
Though you may to-day be surrounded by
comforts and Injuries and feel that you
have need Of nothing, if you are not the
children Of God with the signet ring of
Christ's love, let me inscribe upon your
souls: lone thing tn on 1ackes t."
pray you that, whatever else you may
miss, you may not miss Heaven. 1t is toe
bright a home to lose. Your soul has been
bought at too dear price. preach to you
of the blood that cieanseth from all sin.
Casting all your sins behind you, beg OF
you to Estart this morning for the king
dom. ''Yes,' YOU say, 81 win start, but
not now" William III made pFoclana-
tion, when there was revolution in the
North of Scotland, that ali who came and
took the oath of allegiance by the 31st 81
of December should be pardoned. Mac
Ian, chieftain Of a prominent clan, re
| solved to return with the rest Of II
rebels. but had some pride in bel,
the very last one that should take
oath. he postponed starting
this purpose until two
before the expiration of
term. A snow-storm impeded
way, and before he got mp to take the
and receive a pardon from the throaf
time was up and past. While theay
were set free, Maclan was miserasiv
to death. He startsd too Iate aud arr
too late. In ike manner, some Of yoe